189 Episodes

  1. Episode 153: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Tips for Creating Student-Centered Classrooms

    Published: 1/14/2024

  2. Episode 152 - Why don't you talk about Time & Money?

    Published: 1/7/2024

  3. Episode 151 - What Do Students Need to Know About Division?

    Published: 12/17/2023

  4. Episode 150 - A Quick Math Story Problem Activity

    Published: 12/10/2023

  5. Episode 149 - Things to Say Instead of IDK

    Published: 12/3/2023

  6. Number Sense Kickstart Day #10 - Join The Flexibility Formula Course

    Published: 10/17/2023

  7. Number Sense Kickstart Day #9 - Practice makes Permanent…not Perfect.

    Published: 10/16/2023

  8. Number Sense Kickstart Day #8 - Empowering Students Through the Use of Story Problems

    Published: 10/13/2023

  9. Number Sense Kickstart Day #7 - Using Number Routines to Put Theoretical Ideas Into Practice

    Published: 10/12/2023

  10. Number Sense Kickstart Day #6 - The Biggest Mistake Educators Make When Using the C-R-A Model

    Published: 10/11/2023

  11. Number Sense Kickstart Day #5 - Are the Math Visuals You're Using Actually Helpful?

    Published: 10/10/2023

  12. Number Sense Kickstart Day #4 - Listening to Student Thinking

    Published: 10/9/2023

  13. Number Sense Kickstart Day #3 - Having a record of what your students understand

    Published: 10/6/2023

  14. Number Sense Kickstart Day #2 - What understanding do your students need?

    Published: 10/5/2023

  15. Number Sense Kickstart - Day 1

    Published: 10/4/2023

  16. Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?

    Published: 6/19/2022

  17. Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent

    Published: 6/12/2022

  18. Episode 146 - Standard Algorithms Compared to Computational Strategies

    Published: 6/5/2022

  19. Episode 145 - Math Textbooks Have the Teaching of Fluency All Wrong

    Published: 5/29/2022

  20. Episode 144 - What is Computational Fluency?

    Published: 5/22/2022

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The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don't know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here's how I define us. We are math educators who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.